var title = 'Psychology and Mental Health Forum Psychology Feed';
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		var time = 'Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:03:35 -0400';

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		data[0]['title'] = 'I feel like nothing...';
		data[0]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/i_feel_like_nothing..._c-3_u-402724_b-10936.html';
		data[0]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/i_feel_like_nothing..._c-3_u-402724_b-10936.html';
		data[0]['username'] = 'reoww25';
		data[0]['blog_id'] = '10936';
		data[0]['blog_message'] = 'My boyfriend has been in this really bad place for the past couple of weeks. He says that he doesn&#039;t feel like himself (or act like himself) &amp; that he feels like &#039;nothing&#039;. He&#039;s saying that he doesn&#039;t feel like a friend or a boyfriend. And that he feels nothing towards our relationship, even though he loves me like crazy. He just feels nothing towards everything right now.<br /><br />Because of this he wants us to take a break from our relationship so he can focus on himself and getting better. He wants to do it alone.<br /><br />I am really worried about him. I can&#039;t just leave him to battle this on his own when i&#039;m the only one that knows he&#039;s in this bad place. <br /><br />Even though we are on a break I really want to be there for him and help him. I just don&#039;t know how...';
		data[0]['blog_time'] = 'Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:10:19 -0400';
		

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		data[1]['title'] = 'AvPD, SAD, lack of eye contact, and fear of being touched?';
		data[1]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/avpd_sad_lack_of_eye_contact_and_fear_of_being_touched%CA%94_c-3_u-235406_b-5338.html';
		data[1]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/avpd_sad_lack_of_eye_contact_and_fear_of_being_touched%CA%94_c-3_u-235406_b-5338.html';
		data[1]['username'] = 'Ashley_kate23';
		data[1]['blog_id'] = '5338';
		data[1]['blog_message'] = 'I was diagnosed with AvPD and SAD and I was wondering if anyone has a horrible problem with eye contact and being touched?<br />I have never been able to make eye contact unless I absolutely felt like it was necessary so that I didn&#039;t seem rude. <br />I can&#039;t make eye contact with my dad no matter what and I can barely make eye contact with my mom. <br /><br />I also have a hard time dealing with being touched. When someone accidentally touches me, I literally cringe. I then feel like I need to go wash whatever part they touched me. I can&#039;t be touched by my dad because it just feels horrible! If he touches me, I feel like I&#039;m going to cry. I&#039;m okay with my mom touching me SOMETIMES, but she doesn&#039;t want to touch me because she has issues of her own. <br />I just hate being touched so much. Hugs and hand shaking are horrifying for me. <br />I want to get over this, but at the same time I just really don&#039;t want to ever be touched.';
		data[1]['blog_time'] = 'Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:23:31 -0400';
		

		data[2] = new Array();
		data[2]['title'] = 'What Now?';
		data[2]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/what_now%CA%94_c-3_u-258910_b-6958.html';
		data[2]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/what_now%CA%94_c-3_u-258910_b-6958.html';
		data[2]['username'] = 'shortsnorts';
		data[2]['blog_id'] = '6958';
		data[2]['blog_message'] = 'So, my step brother took the plea. What now? What happens next? I have been preparing for the worst, and now I&#039;m suppose to be happy? I don&#039;t understand.';
		data[2]['blog_time'] = 'Mon, 19 May 2014 19:19:31 -0400';
		

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		data[3]['title'] = 'I'm in love/like with someone with ASPD';
		data[3]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/i%CA%B9m_in_lovelike_with_someone_with_aspd_c-3_u-440784_b-11693.html';
		data[3]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/i%CA%B9m_in_lovelike_with_someone_with_aspd_c-3_u-440784_b-11693.html';
		data[3]['username'] = 'caseyy123';
		data[3]['blog_id'] = '11693';
		data[3]['blog_message'] = 'you see, I&#039;ve liked him for some time now but never went for it cause I used to think he was weird. (attractive though) but for the past few months him and I have been really talking. &amp; he told me he has ASPD which I&#039;ve now been researching a lot because I genuinely care for him and want to make sure he&#039;s like you know, okay? <br />I can&#039;t tell if he likes me or not or if we&#039;re going anywhere though? I&#039;ve expressed to him many times how I like him and he thinks its odd/weird? is that bad? He let me take his V-Card but then afterwards said it felt like it didn&#039;t even happen because he doesn&#039;t really have &quot;emotions&quot;. I&#039;m so confused, he says he likes being with me and cuddling with me and he wants to see me like every chance he can &amp; he blows up my phone when he gets on break/wakes up before I do or if I&#039;m not messaging back. he&#039;s not mean or rude, he&#039;s not addicted to drugs. the only thing about him is he acts sort of emotionless like he doesn&#039;t like expressing his feelings/getting emotional? and he doesn&#039;t like kissing either which is weird cause most guys his age (19) do you know?<br />I really am so confused and I think I&#039;m falling in love with him, he&#039;s the first guy I&#039;ve liked since my last relationship which was a year &amp; took a lot of healing time so I&#039;m afraid.. should I keep going and see where it goes without getting my hopes up? or does it sound like I should just give up..? (I rather not) but I&#039;d like to hear opinions from others with ASPD and your feelings about love.. have you ever been in love or felt strongly about someone?';
		data[3]['blog_time'] = 'Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:47:06 -0500';
		

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		data[4]['title'] = 'projecting?';
		data[4]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/projecting%CA%94_c-3_u-457238_b-12656.html';
		data[4]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/projecting%CA%94_c-3_u-457238_b-12656.html';
		data[4]['username'] = 'tiredwife';
		data[4]['blog_id'] = '12656';
		data[4]['blog_message'] = 'I have always heard that when being accused of something (that you aren&#039;t and haven&#039;t done,) it&#039;s more than likely because your accuser is guilty of such.  I&#039;m certain this doesn&#039;t apply to every situation, but realistically, how often does this actually happen to you?<br /><br />Based upon my husband&#039;s past experiences with a wife that cheated, drank, and drugged herself into a stupor, I understand his skepticism.  I however, do not do anything at all similar, don&#039;t look similar, don&#039;t act or speak similarly.  We are not the same.  I am his second wife.  <br /><br />For the past year, it has turned into him yelling, screaming &quot;shut your f***ing mouth&quot; &quot;listen to me when i speak to you&quot; &quot;you will respect me,&quot; and things of that nature.  He tells me not to talk over him, not interrupt him, and then when I ask for a moment of his time, he cuts me off and uses his hands as a &quot;stop&quot; gesture to end what I have to say.  In all honesty, I do not feel as though my husband respects me, or cares at all about the things I say.  I am a very brutally honest and blunt, and some would say  pessimistic person.  I believe I just know better how to prepare for situations, and expect others to disappoint me, so I work things our in such a way that I do not get disappointed.  I look at life with a very real sense of what can and cannot be accomplished in a given amount of time.  I am very time-oriented.  <br />My husband tells me that I assume to much.  An example:<br />I tell him one thing in the A.M., he forgets by lunch 5 days in a row, and tells me that he forgot every evening. I tell him the same message on the 6th day, he gets bent out of shape because &quot;I assumed he would forget and now I am nagging.&quot;  I personally do not find that nagging or assuming.  It is using deductive reasoning or taking what was learned from first-hand experiences, and applying it to the situation.  This is something that happens every week.  <br /><br />He accuses me of being childish, immature, and needing to grow the f*** up.<br />I do not raise my voice at him.  I am the mother of his child.  I keep the house running.  I am overseer of all of the financials.  I went to college.  I make more money than him.  I have two college degrees.  I am a female in a predominately male professional trade, decisive, direct, and dedicated.  I have more real-world experience than he does.  I am literal.  To the point.  Callous, if you will.  I do not mince words.  I say exactly what the situation calls for, and I use the correct vernacular for emotions and feelings.  I had to grow up fast, and by whatever means necessary, while he grew up in the same house all his life, was the youngest of three children with a stay at home mother, and overly religious upbringing, had no responsibilities, and never been told no.  I do not play games.  He says I do.  He is the one that plays games, blatantly ignoring repeated phone calls and going out of his way to make me feel inadequate.<br /><br />Really, that&#039;s just two examples..but just this morning we had the biggest blow-up of our relationship because I asked for clarification on what he meant by a statement, and it turned into very seriously hurtful words and screaming.<br /><br />Any advice, folks?';
		data[4]['blog_time'] = 'Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:08:34 -0500';